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Jungle_Munky
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 Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 4:00 am Post subject: wireless card problems :( |
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ok before i start i just want to say that i am very new to linux so dont blame me if i sound stupid  . ok, i have 2 problems, 1 being my wireless card not working... its a PCI Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g, according to that ls pci thing. and the second problem is my firefox will only start if i am logged in as root, and start it from ATerm... somone please help?
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Freke_
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 4:59 am Post subject: |
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What desktop?
What kernel?
and did you emerge Firefox?
In short... Give us more information about your problem if you need help...
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Jungle_Munky
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how do i tell what kernel and desktop... lol and yes im not that dumb i did emerge firefox:P
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nielchiano
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 10:29 am Post subject: |
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your kernel will tell you who he is by asking (in a bash shell/ xterm/ ...)
desktop: I think you know this... What does it says when the "windows" starts up? GNOME? KDE? Fluxbox? (can be something other, but since you're new my bets are at one of the first 2) |
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UberLord
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infract
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| UberLord wrote: | | I think for broadcoms you need to use ndiswrapper and configure it to use the windows driver. |
yeah, i have a similar card myself, and it only works via ndiswrapper. [ http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net ]
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andrewy
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| you say firefox doesn't run.. what error does it give you? |
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Jungle_Munky
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i used that code "uname -a" and got this:
Linux junglebox 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 #3 Wed Apr 28 13:22:00 EDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1400MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
and when i rightclick on desktop it opens fluxbox menu.
when i type "firefox" in aterm (not as root) it just goes down a line and clears it and does nothing else. but when i log in as root and i execute it it loads but gives me this:
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID
and finally, uhh the net work card just doesnt work i dont know how to do anything on linux really so if you could give me some pointers (step-by-step please?) it would be most greatfull.
oh i setup ndiswrapper and told it where my windows drivers are but when my comp boots it says it could not be loaded... 
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andrewy
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Try moving the libjavaplugin_oji.so file to another directory, you can do this with
"mv /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so /place/to/move/it/to" |
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